---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to child day care licensing."
description: "relative to child day care licensing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1056"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1056 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra L. DeSimone"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-27"
last_action: "2024-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9456b0d-2c25-4c15-9560-9b75be9531ee"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2382&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "a493d5c52243835028c422bfbe9fcbb58710551aa534606dcb493974c2b62281"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire HB 1056 (2024) — relative to child day care licensing.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment #2024-0995h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2024-0995h&txtFormat=amend)
2. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1469&txtFormat=html)

## Sponsors

- Debra L. DeSimone — primary (person)
- Jodi L Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Katelyn Kuttab — cosponsor (person)
- Lorie Ball — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-11-27** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Special Committee on Childcare `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Public Hearing: 02/07/2024 10:30 am LOB 209
- **2024-02-15** Executive Session: 02/21/2024 10:00 am LOB 104
- **2024-02-28** Executive Session: 03/06/2024 11:00 am LOB 104
- **2024-02-29** Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2024-0760h: 03/06/2024 10:00 am LOB 104
- **2024-03-11** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2024-0995h (NT) 03/06/2024 (Vote 9-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Amendment # 2024-0995h (NT): AA VV 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 17
- **2024-03-21** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-0995h: MA VV 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 17 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-03-26** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** ==ROOM CHANGE== Hearing: 04/03/2024, Room 100, SH, 10:00 am; SC 13A
- **2024-05-16** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/22/2024; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 20 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-22** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/22/2024; SJ 14 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-06-24** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-06-25** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16 P. 45
- **2024-07-22** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/03/2024; Chapter 102; eff.09/01/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9456b0d-2c25-4c15-9560-9b75be9531ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).